Rejoice! We have a trilogy!
PAINKILLER - The Equinox (CD) (2025)
Last year's return and reimagination of the John Zorn / Bill Laswell / Mick Harris cult trio PainKiller wasn't a one-off, but only the first of three releases with the new less improvisational approach of ex-drummer Harris laying down a foundation of Electronic beats and sounds and the other players adding bass and saxophone on top. "The Equinox" totally follows this blueprint introduced on "Samsara", but!
Well, to be completely honest writing this review is one of those rather futile excercises, where you cannot really add anything not already covered by the album's own hype text on the OBI strip. And I even accidentily got two of those in my copy, as if Tzadik thought they weren't mocking my attempt enough already.
So the short and probably sufficient version is that the album does everything its predecessor does, but more refined, more dynamic and with more variety. Harris' groundwork is significantly more complex, Laswell's Dub and Fusion bass lines sit tighter on his even wilder breakbeats and even deeper and more atmospheric Ambient textures. And Zorn is just... really everything he can be on the saxophone, delivering a plethora of both shrill outbursts and achingly beautiful warm melodies.
But where's the news here? You know these guys are masters, legends even in their fields. "Samsara" was the already amazing warm-up in their new Ambient Electronic Jazzcore Techno Noise constellation. "The Equinox" shows their further adaption and improvement of the workflow. The result is Future Jazz PainKiller, part 2: The Masterpiece?
I'm very curious to hear how in hell and on Earth they will follow this up with "The Great God Plan" next month!
Well, to be completely honest writing this review is one of those rather futile excercises, where you cannot really add anything not already covered by the album's own hype text on the OBI strip. And I even accidentily got two of those in my copy, as if Tzadik thought they weren't mocking my attempt enough already.
So the short and probably sufficient version is that the album does everything its predecessor does, but more refined, more dynamic and with more variety. Harris' groundwork is significantly more complex, Laswell's Dub and Fusion bass lines sit tighter on his even wilder breakbeats and even deeper and more atmospheric Ambient textures. And Zorn is just... really everything he can be on the saxophone, delivering a plethora of both shrill outbursts and achingly beautiful warm melodies.
But where's the news here? You know these guys are masters, legends even in their fields. "Samsara" was the already amazing warm-up in their new Ambient Electronic Jazzcore Techno Noise constellation. "The Equinox" shows their further adaption and improvement of the workflow. The result is Future Jazz PainKiller, part 2: The Masterpiece?
I'm very curious to hear how in hell and on Earth they will follow this up with "The Great God Plan" next month!
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